Color Inkjet Printers Review

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Color inkjet printers have become the most popular computer printers for the general consume, thanks to their low cost and high quality of printing, as well as their capability to print in almost any size of paper (some are also capable to print over fabric and other kind of materials).

Basically, color inkjet printers are classified according to the technology adopted: thermal, piezoelectric or continuous.

Thermal Color Inkjet Printers are the most common inkjet printers available in the consumer market. They use cartridges with a series of tiny electrically heated chambers who produce steam ink bubbles as pulses of current run the heating elements. As a result, a droplet of ink is thrown onto the paper.

Instead of heating elements, piezoelectric color inkjet printers use ink-filled chambers which contain some piezoelectric material behind each nozzle. When a voltage is applied to the piezoelectric piece this starts to vibrate. Changes in shape and size caused by vibrations generate pressure pulses in the ink chamber forcing droplets from the nozzle. This technology allows using a wider variety of inks but print heads are more expensive. It is used basically for industrial and commercial inkjet printers.

Continuous inkjet technology is used basically for marking and coding products and packages. Liquid ink is directed from the reservoir to a microscopic nozzle creating a continuous stream of ink droplets. It requires active solvent regulation. This is the oldest technology applied in inkjet printing and has practically no application in consumer or commercial color inkjet printers.

Color inkjet printers advantages: Compared to previous consumer-oriented color printers (i.e. dot matrix printers), inkjet printers are quieter and can print finer so that many photographic-quality color inkjet printers are now widely available. Compared to more expensive technologies, they don’t need to worm up and prints have a lower cost per page.

Color inkjet printers disadvantages: Ink cartridges are often expensive. Plus, most manufacturers embed an “intelligent” microchip in the cartridges which prevents from printing when it claims the cartridge is “empty”, as an attempt to avoid cartridge refill. As a result, they print up to 30% less then without the chip. The lifetime of aqueous based ink prints is quite limited.

Brother MFC-490CW Color Inkjet Wireless All-in-One Printer: If you are looking for an inexpensive wireless multifunction device that it is easy to setup, good featured, compact, multifunction and quite, this is the perfect deal for you. It is also energy star rated and although puts itself to sleep after a non-use period, its out of sleep startup is very fast when you send a document to print. The print speed seems to be slower than the manual claims, however it is still quite fast for this kind of product. Scanning is very simple and easy, one-button-touch and you have a PDF dropped into your hard drive. OCR quality is also amazing, though the program is very easy to use. Fax is also very easy to set up and use. Last but not least, it is a true CMYK printer, that is, it has a separate ink cartridge for each color, so you only have to replace the cartridge that is empty.

Epson Artisan 50 Color Inkjet Printer: If you are interested in a color inkjet printer that is capable to print CD/DVD labels but also normal documents in a photo printing quality this printer is with no doubt for you. The quality of labels is simply excellent. If the software for printing CD/DVD formats doesn’t satisfy you, you can export your works as photo files from your preferred program and print them with the provided Epson print disc software. Its six-cartridge printing system produces magazine quality prints and pictures, both in optical media and in photo paper. Printing is also very fast. And you can have all this for a great price.

Epson Stylus NX515 WiFi Color Inkjet All-in-One Printer: Though it is an all-in-one, this color inkjet printer is actually relatively small and lightweight. A quick start guide makes its installation and set up really simple. USB cable is not included (as for most printers), but you can easily have it for a couple of dollars. The print speed is really fast: most printers won’t print faster in draft mode than this one does in its standard one, which provides excellent printing quality. It also has a very easy to read and very easy to navigate control panel. This printer is perfect for those people who want a printer capable to scan and copy while producing excellent prints.